{"id":280187,"date":"2025-09-08T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280187"},"modified":"2025-09-08T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:18:04","slug":"footy-fans-savagely-turn-on-australian-pm-anthony-albanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280187","title":{"rendered":"Footy fans savagely turn on Australian PM Anthony Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hawthorn fan Anthony Albanese found himself on the receiving end of some fan backlash on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Australian Prime Minister was taking in the finals action at Engie Stadium in Sydney as his beloved Hawks took on the GWS Giants in an elimination final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sat alongside AFL CEO Andrew Dillon, Albanese had a Hawks scarf draped around his neck as his side moved towards a win away from home.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-9.16.04-AM-1-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-280192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-9.16.04-AM-1-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-9.16.04-AM-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-9.16.04-AM-1-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-9.16.04-AM-1-1536x859.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-08-at-9.16.04-AM-1.png 1542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">AFL Fans in Sydney boo Albanese<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But towards the latter stages of the third quarter the cameras panned to show the nation\u2019s leader on the big screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Almost instantly the mood around the stadium shifted with a chorus of boos beginning to ring out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dillon and Albanese quickly looked around to find out what was causing the commotion before spotting themselves on the big screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Dillon shrugged off the noise with a chuckle, the PM didn\u2019t look at all pleased with the treatment he was receiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>News.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese was trying to enjoy a day out watching his AFL team in a final, but fans let the Prime Minister know how they truly felt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":175313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10578,273,999,35],"tags":[18040,18039,17891,5026,2139],"class_list":["post-280187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afl","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-andrew-dillon","tag-engie-stadium","tag-hawthorn-football-club","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280194,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280187\/revisions\/280194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}